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Wednesday, August 9, 2017

USA's short-order Jessica Biel series The Sinner opened with a 0.42 on Wednesday, building on its lead-in from Suits (0.36). At least on premiere night, that puts it ahead of the rest of the USA pack from last week.

TBS premiered new comedy The Guest Book on Thursday to a 0.45 at 10:00, dropping to a 0.33 at 10:30. Its lead-in was a 0.59 from a repeat of The Big Bang Theory.

Showtime got some relief from its Twin Peaks struggles as Ray Donovan (0.24) showed up in the 9:00 hour, tripling its lead-in from the 8:00-bound Peaks (0.08). Donovan was four hundredths below last year's premiere, and now we shall see if it sets off on yet another post-premiere growth trajectory.

Also on Sunday, Game of Thrones (4.60) rose by three tenths in week four... but it did something very similar last year, so it was yet another episode of high-teens growth year-to-year. Lead-out comedies Ballers (1.12) and Insecure (0.60) gave back some of their surges from a week ago. Week two of Rick and Morty (1.26) was down 15% from the premiere, but still above any raw number from the first two seasons.

FULL TABLE:

Show

Episode

Season

Name

Net

Ep

A18-49

Last

Seas

Avg

y2y

Proj

ProjPlus

Skew

Male

Game of Thrones

HBO

4

4.60

+7%

7

4.48

+17%

4.52

369

59%

56%

Rick and Morty

ADUL

2

1.26

-15%

3

1.37

+27%

1.28

104

67%

68%

Ballers

HBO

3

1.12

-11%

3

1.20

+79%

1.02

83

62%

59%

Power

STAR

7

0.75

-4%

4

0.75

-16%

0.75

62

56%

45%

The Haves and the Have Nots

OWN

17

0.59

-2%

4

0.63

-22%

0.64

53

33%

34%

Insecure

HBO

3

0.60

-9%

2

0.60

+341%

0.70

57

64%

52%

American Dad!

TBS

17

0.53

+15%

13

0.53

-2%

0.53

43

68%

59%

Queen Sugar

OWN

8

0.47

+12%

2

0.48

-6%

0.47

39

37%

29%

Snowfall

FX

5

0.42

0%

1

0.47

0.43

35

54%

61%

Claws

TNT

9

0.51

-9%

1

0.46

0.46

38

46%

38%

Preacher

AMC

8

0.36

-23%

2

0.43

-32%

0.43

35

43%

59%

The Sinner

USA

1

0.42

1

0.42

0.32

26

33%

36%

The Strain

FX

4

0.43

+30%

4

0.40

-17%

0.34

28

46%

59%

Being Mary Jane

BET

13

0.33

-3%

4

0.39

-47%

0.39

32

54%

23%

The Guest Book

TBS

2

0.39

-13%

1

0.39

0.34

28

43%

53%

Wrecked

TBS

7

0.38

+12%

2

0.39

-19%

0.37

30

49%

52%

Queen of the South

USA

9

0.31

-24%

2

0.38

-5%

0.36

30

43%

37%

Animal Kingdom

TNT

9

0.39

+8%

2

0.37

-12%

0.38

31

41%

49%

Suits

USA

4

0.36

+6%

7

0.35

-32%

0.33

27

32%

48%

Shooter

USA

3

0.33

+3%

2

0.35

-25%

0.36

29

35%

56%

People of Earth

TBS

3

0.33

0%

2

0.32

+4%

0.34

28

58%

59%

The Fosters

FREE

4

0.25

-14%

5

0.29

-24%

0.29

24

50%

28%

Shadowhunters

FREE

19

0.25

+4%

2

0.26

-38%

0.26

21

50%

34%

Chesapeake Shores

HALL

1

0.24

2

0.24

-23%

0.23

19

16%

33%

Ray Donovan

SHOW

1

0.24

5

0.24

-14%

0.27

22

27%

56%

Teen Wolf

MTV

12

0.23

-12%

6

0.23

-44%

0.23

19

60%

45%

Younger

TVLA

6

0.21

-5%

4

0.21

+34%

0.23

19

38%

29%

Odd Mom Out

BRAV

4

0.19

-10%

3

0.20

+23%

0.24

20

44%

24%

Nashville

CMT

22

0.15

-6%

5

0.20

-79%

0.20

16

30%

37%

Killjoys

SYFY

6

0.16

-27%

3

0.17

-4%

0.17

14

35%

56%

The Bold Type

FREE

5

0.19

+19%

1

0.16

0.17

14

60%

18%

Blood Drive

SYFY

8

0.15

+36%

1

0.15

0.15

12

37%

64%

Dark Matter

SYFY

9

0.15

-12%

3

0.15

-12%

0.15

12

31%

58%

Stitchers

FREE

9

0.13

0%

3

0.13

-13%

0.13

11

45%

Wynonna Earp

SYFY

9

0.16

+23%

2

0.12

-10%

0.12

10

31%

48%

Will

TNT

6

0.13

+30%

1

0.12

0.12

10

36%

Turn

AMC

9

0.12

-8%

4

0.12

-11%

0.13

10

25%

47%

Twin Peaks

SHOW

11

0.08

+33%

1

0.10

0.09

7

42%

69%

Loaded

AMC

4

0.07

-42%

1

0.09

0.08

6

43%

Orphan Black

BBC-

8

0.08

-20%

5

0.08

-17%

0.08

7

36%

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